It’s six months since Rob’s mum died & he moved to Florida. His dad won’t talk about her at all. “ Crying ain’t going to bring her back, ” he says. So Rob fills a locked suitcase in his mind with all his forbidden thoughts: Mum, the rash on his legs, the bullies at school. But then he finds a caged tiger deep in the woods. That same day, he meets Sistine Bailey, another bullied outsider. She says they must set the tiger free. & when Rob imagines the tiger rising out of its cage, his suitcase begins to open… “A delicate but surprisingly powerful novella.” Guardian gr-7to 8